Today's News

Springtime automatically brings up thoughts of new life and babies in particular. On this old ranch it is calving time and that is a favorite time for me.

My father doctor always said, “Put on the catcher’s mitt, but never interfere with Mother Nature unless there is obvious trouble with the birthing process.” How right he was, and he caught lots of babies in his 60 years of his private practice at Valmora.

During a board meeting last week, district officials said the state Public Education Department has assured them that the east side school district will receive $500,000 in emergency supplemental funding.

District officials said they met with PED Deputy Secretary Paul Aguilar earlier this month, and he provided the assurance.

Plans to sell beer at the Rodriguez Park Complex during professional baseball games took a major step forward last week with the City Council approving changes to its drinking in public ordinance that would allow it.

City Councilors Tonita Gurule-Giron and David Romero voted against the changes, while Mayor Alfonso Ortiz joined with Councilors Vince Howell and Joey Herrera to approve it.

Fire restrictions imposed
SANTA FE — State Land Commissioner Ray Powell is prohibiting smoking, open fires and fireworks on state trust land because of the risk of wildfires.
Powell announced the restrictions on Monday. He said the potential for human-caused fires is high because of drought conditions as well as recent high winds.
The Land Office manages nine million acres of state-owned land and 13 million acres of subsurface rights to oil, natural gas and minerals.

In 1963
Friday, March 29 — The highly complicated computer is generally viewed as an operation in a scientific never-never land that the ordinary person does not enter. But last week Highlands University’s IBM 1620 produced answers that anybody can understand. Dr. A.A. Kraus, a physics professor at Highlands, said the computer determined the points at which local sales tax should be set: To 10 cents, no tax; 11 to 36 cents, one cent; 37 to 61 cents, two cents tax; 62 to 86 cents, three cents tax; 87 cents to $1, four cents tax.

Story Time at Carnegie
Story Time at Carnegie Library is held at 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. each Wednesday in the children’s area of the public library. This week’s book is “Ollie’s Easter Eggs” by Olivier Dunrea. Story Time is free and open to the public.